Bruce Whistlecraft (A.K.A Doktor A) has become synonymous with the creation of Victorian Futurist style Robot characters. His popular ongoing Mechtorians series unravels the story of the retrobotic realm of Retropolis one artwork at a time. The Doktor’s work is an investigation of artifice. From the physical actuality of pieces that look like complex automata, but are incapable of movement. Through the simulation of materials from other mediums. To the wider psychological and sociological constructs of what constitutes a person’s character and place in society. Even the artist’s name is artificial. Nothing is what it seems. The Doktor’s works have found homes in high profile private art collections around the world and new pieces are keenly anticipated. His characters also reach a wider audience through the medium of toys with rarer editions being highly sought after. Trained as an Industrial Modelmaker, he has worked in the advertising and entertainment industry, as a “blue-sky” concept toy designer and eight years as a gallery owner. Unlike many artists in the “art-toy” world the Doktor is a toy-maker turned artist. Rather than the more usual artist turned toy-maker. He works from his studio on the Yorkshire moors in the UK.